Gerald Bivens

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Equally, the term understanding denotes quite different things in these two spheres of activity.

Understanding in a scientific sense means agreement on a cerebral, logical level; it is an intellectual act akin to the process of proving a theorem.

Understanding an artistic image means an aesthetic acceptance of the beautiful, on an emotional or even supra-emotional level.1

Notes

  1. Andrey Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986), 40.